We arrived in Rhodes probably early in the morning, I didn’t take many notes for this day. We signed up for an excursion to the Rhodes Acropolis and walking tour of the Old City. The Acropolis staircase was listed as 300 steps, and we feared for the worst after the staircase at Patmos, but for whatever reason, it was pretty easy going.

Please sir, don’t pay to ride me, my back can’t take it

After the Acropolis, we got dropped off at the Old City and walked through it, but there wasn’t much to see. I didn’t even take many photographs. The tour ended and the girls wanted to go swimming at a beach that was listed as 20 minutes away, however it took us around 40 to get there, after a wrong turn and a walk along a strip of land bounded by water.

I was in a pretty grumpy mood for the day, which I later attributed to my growing dehydration. Virtually everywhere we went, including the ship, we couldn’t drink the water, and we’d have to buy bottled, and I was having a hard time staying hydrated. Once we made it to the beach, we found many emplaced beach chairs and umbrellas. We, with some incredulity, thought that they were set up for the benefit of the tourists… until a guy came along asking for money. Later the girls wanted to get blended drinks and went off to a nearby bar-stand for daiquiris, and came back with drinks costing 9 euros, which is around 14 dollars canadian at the time. I just had some water, thankfully.

This better be the best daiquiri ever… *slurp*.. it wasn’t

After the beach we went back to the ship for dinner, and later on went to the casino again to use the internet kiosks they had set up there. We had to swipe our boarding cards so it could charge us. They charged per download-minute, so once you loaded and page and sat there, it wouldn’t just keep charging you. But even with that, the bandwidth for me to load up hotmail and then send an email to my parents cost 2.02 euros.

We were to have another early morning the next day, as that was when we were to disembark for Crete, our first island we would be staying at for longer than an excursion. So once again we went back to our tiny cabin for another rocky sleep.

To be continued